“First, a real union on the part of all denominations for service. Not doctrinal, but just helping one another to make a better world on their own working platform of love to God and men.

“Second, a definite program of the Kingdom in this age of the world. Did not your heart leap, Grey, when he said it was the business of the churches to unite in order to have power enough together to take out of our civilization the curses of drink, lust, race prejudice, poverty, and war? What a tremendous climax that was when he pictured the new age which he said was possible when these vices we have always regarded as part of civilization are taken away. The hopeful thing about it all was his calm assurance that they were not necessary.”

“Yes,” replied Grey, “it has only just dawned on some churches and preachers that the great vices of mankind are less powerful than the gospel.”

Maxwell continued, “Third, the possibility of a printed message every day to represent the church and its great work. We have no daily paper to speak for us. What would Christianity have been all these centuries without a Bible? Yet here we are today, in a world of the daily printed page, without any vehicle to speak daily the message of Christianity as it really is. We need such an organ, not only for proclaiming God’s righteousness, but for information concerning the greatness of the gospel in its world-wide conquest.”

“I note, in connection with that, his statement that the editors and owners of daily papers owe it to civilization to use their papers to advance all human causes. If every great daily paper in all the great cities of the United States would help the church and the home in their battle with the world’s gross vices, there would not be a brewery or a saloon or a house of vice left in these cities at the end of ten years.”

“What a splendid sweep of power went over the audience at that! I tell you, Grey, it seemed to me at that point that I felt, as I never did before, the everlasting might of Jesus in action. All things seemed possible.”

“But did you notice, sitting directly in front of Jesus, up in the gallery, was Carter of the Gazette? Does it ever seem possible to you that a man of Carter’s ambitions will ever use his Gazette for Christian purposes? Remember how he has fought Norman and the churches all these years.”

“He will never change the policy of the Gazette until he himself is changed. I dread the appearance of the Gazette tonight. No doubt Barnes will have a story in it that will be full of irreverence and sensationalism. Think of the caricatures Jesus will have to endure.”

“He endured them while he was here before. Who understood him? Not even his own disciples. The cultured, the leaders in society, and the high and mighty all hated and jeered and finally crucified him. It was only the common people who heard him gladly. Can we expect it to be different now?”